John St. Bodfan Gruffydd

John St. Bodfan Gruffydd (5 April 1910 – 25 November 2004) was a Welsh landscape architect.[1]

Life

He worked as landscape architect to Harlow New Town and the new town of Crawley.[2] He helped found the landscape architecture school in Cheltenham (now University of Gloucestershire), starting a course in 1961.[3] In 1966, he wrote a report on landscape for hospitals;[4] it remained for decades the only work of its kind.[5]

He was President of the Institute of Landscape Architects (now the Landscape Institute) from 1969 to 1971, and he was landscape architect for Robinson College, Cambridge.[6]

In the mid-1970s, when the Garden History Society was concerned to protect historic landscapes, he suggested the setting-up of a Historic Landscapes Council analogous to the Historic Buildings Council; but the idea was not implemented.[7]

Works
  • Landscape Architecture for New Hospitals (1967)
  • Protecting Historic Landscapes: Gardens and parks (1977)
  • Tree Form, Size and Colour: A Guide to Selection, Planning and Design (1987)

See also

Notes
  1. Trish Gibson, Brenda Colvin: A Career in Landscape (2011), p. 229; Google Books.
  2. Bodfan Gruffydd, Tree Form, Size and Colour (1994 edition), p. ix; Google Books.
  3. University of Gloucestershire page
  4. Design Journal 1966 Archived 2013-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Cooper Marcus, Clare; Barnes, Marni (7 July 1999). Healing Gardens: therapeutic benefits and design recommendations. p. 17. ISBN 978-0471192039.
  6. Robinson College page Archived 2009-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Laurence J. Fricker, Historic Gardens and Landscapes: The Conservation of a National Asset, The Town Planning Review, Vol. 46, No. 4, A Special Issue to Commemorate European Architectural Heritage Year 1975 (Oct., 1975), pp. 407-414. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40103148.



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